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Japanese whaling ships found and ON THE RUN!
Shortly after 00 hours on Jan 12, the Greepeace ship Esperenza located the Nisshin Maru and the other 5 Japanese whaling ships near Antarctica. The Japanese immediately stopped killing whales and started running in a foolish attempt to escape. The Sea Shepherds are only a day from contact themselves and closing in fast.
The first picture is of the Nisshin Maru(the whale processing factory ship), taken this year from the Esperenza or one of its inflatables.
The second picture is of the Nisshin Maru after it was damaged last year.
The third picture is of an iceberg as seen from the bow of the Steve Irwin(Sea Shepherd ship)
While Greenpeace is refusing to share the coordinates of the Japanese fleet with the Sea Shepherds, ships running flat-out are not hard to find on the Steve Irwin's powerful radar-and Sea Shepherd has sources inside Greenpeace anyway.
Here's how it works: If the Japanese ships see the Steve Irwin and try to stop and pose as an iceberg on radar, Greenpeace is on them in a flash. If the Greenpeace ships spitefully try this, the whaling ships escape.
Only an agreement between Greenpeace and the whale killers could make the "sprint-and drift," radar-hiding game work, and there is just too much incentive to cheat for that game to work.
In addition, Capt Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherds says "We know where the Greenpeace ship Esperanza is and if Greenpeace is in contact with the Japanese fleet, Sea Shepherd will be there as quickly as we can cover the distance between our two positions."
The last time the Sea Shepherds engaged the Nisshin Maru, they sent the whalers to flight-and the Japanese ended up back in harbor with a half cargo of rotting whale meat after their engine room caught fire while about 1,000 miles away.
Perhaps this time the Sea Shepherds won't let the Japanese get 1,000 FEET, much less miles away!
Here is the entry form Greenpeace's crew blog describing the finding of the Japanese whaling fleet:
weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/2008/01/we_found_the_whaling_fleet.html
Related
* http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/greenpeace-ship-pursues-japanese-whalers/2008/01/12/1199988631634.html
* http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080112_1.html
The second picture is of the Nisshin Maru after it was damaged last year.
The third picture is of an iceberg as seen from the bow of the Steve Irwin(Sea Shepherd ship)
While Greenpeace is refusing to share the coordinates of the Japanese fleet with the Sea Shepherds, ships running flat-out are not hard to find on the Steve Irwin's powerful radar-and Sea Shepherd has sources inside Greenpeace anyway.
Here's how it works: If the Japanese ships see the Steve Irwin and try to stop and pose as an iceberg on radar, Greenpeace is on them in a flash. If the Greenpeace ships spitefully try this, the whaling ships escape.
Only an agreement between Greenpeace and the whale killers could make the "sprint-and drift," radar-hiding game work, and there is just too much incentive to cheat for that game to work.
In addition, Capt Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherds says "We know where the Greenpeace ship Esperanza is and if Greenpeace is in contact with the Japanese fleet, Sea Shepherd will be there as quickly as we can cover the distance between our two positions."
The last time the Sea Shepherds engaged the Nisshin Maru, they sent the whalers to flight-and the Japanese ended up back in harbor with a half cargo of rotting whale meat after their engine room caught fire while about 1,000 miles away.
Perhaps this time the Sea Shepherds won't let the Japanese get 1,000 FEET, much less miles away!
Here is the entry form Greenpeace's crew blog describing the finding of the Japanese whaling fleet:
weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/2008/01/we_found_the_whaling_fleet.html
Related
* http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/greenpeace-ship-pursues-japanese-whalers/2008/01/12/1199988631634.html
* http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080112_1.html
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Thank you for the scenario description, Luke!
It does appear that the Australian government "monitoring of the Japanese" includes significant veiled threat voiced toward Sea Shepherd (or Greenpeace to a lesser extent) efforts to hinder whale slaughter.
As the SSCS website and statements of some spokespersons of Australian and US governments have implied, US ONI and other nations possibly collaborating with Japan perceive both Sea Shepherds and Greenpeace efforts as counter to national power and controls on any economic pursuit. Such a consideration is not in the least paranoia.
Whales will forever be in danger of exploitation and extinction because of human valuation of everything, Everything, as economic resource.
In law other species are "res", things, and not "persons." After all, government exists to protect the profit of human groups and individuals, at whatever cost to other species or the future of life itself.
Only if we ourselves gain a broader moral and ethical view and demand it of our species, can government reflect anything other than the worst in human nature.
It does appear that the Australian government "monitoring of the Japanese" includes significant veiled threat voiced toward Sea Shepherd (or Greenpeace to a lesser extent) efforts to hinder whale slaughter.
As the SSCS website and statements of some spokespersons of Australian and US governments have implied, US ONI and other nations possibly collaborating with Japan perceive both Sea Shepherds and Greenpeace efforts as counter to national power and controls on any economic pursuit. Such a consideration is not in the least paranoia.
Whales will forever be in danger of exploitation and extinction because of human valuation of everything, Everything, as economic resource.
In law other species are "res", things, and not "persons." After all, government exists to protect the profit of human groups and individuals, at whatever cost to other species or the future of life itself.
Only if we ourselves gain a broader moral and ethical view and demand it of our species, can government reflect anything other than the worst in human nature.
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